Saturday, March 21, 2009

Clean Spooky House!

The Spooky House is Clean! And the Sunroom has curtains. I knew that was what it needed, and was delighted to find a bunch of sheer white ones on clearance today. Ok, so curtains come in different lengths. Who knew? So half the room has long ones and half short ones.

EXACTLY perfect. My Floor Room is now the way I want it, and I can type on my Floor and be happy. Kind of Zen in here just now, with all these white curtains.

I am not sure there are words to describe how having a CLEAN top to bottom house feels. Merryhousekeeper, with Spooky Daughter, and Sister Terry Do Not Mess Around. Add in WoodsmanHans to put up all my curtain rods, and one achieves this Zen.

Here's Venus and Mim in the Romance Room, which is much cozier with the addition of the couches that were previously in the Sunroom. See the newly clean Coffee Table Fish Tank. (Malena found it on Ebay, no kidding) It still has no Fish, as the ones I saw for sale today were having a bit of trouble swimming, which is no good in fish. It has no heater, but will have lots of little goldfish in it as soon as I can find healthy ones. If it could have a heater, I would have Piranhas. Might investigate...

And since we are now actively looking for a home for The Royals, here's a couple of pics in their newly clean room. This is Queen Mab peeking up.

And one of Lear, licking his chops. Food motivated does not begin to describe King Lear the Huge.

And a lovely shot showing off their spots. They are ready for a new home. They trust now, and there is a Someone out there who will fall totally in love with them. Mab is sweet, but Lear is a truly special guy.

This is how I feel right now. Zen. Peace. And happy in my Spooky House.

so the kids were yelling and playing in the halls and staiirs, and got hurt. like duh. so they wke me up and now i'm watcing mindless tv. for some reaosn i like bridgett, hef's ex. she always seemed less dumb than the others. she has a show about beaches. in this episode she took a playmate friend and this quote was priceless. "I have never heard of Croatia before, this is seriously like an unkept secret"

I did enter to win, but decided that I must not have. I don't usually win good things. I won the Christmas Trivia contest at work this year. Oh. Excuse me. The Holiday Trivia contest. I sent it to my best friend, and she and her daughter looked up the answers on the interwebs and sent them back to me. Yeah. Cheated to win a $5 Arch Card. Going straight to Perdition.

That's OK - it'll be the first time the whole family makes the reunion.

Fablo, I have lots of ideas for live bait for fountain, minnows, other fishing baits you don't get attached to that are totally fun for kitty fishing!spooky house is very refreshed, yes, but still so much to do to! & I & Spooky daughter & sister Terry will be there for you! And of course our woodsman Hanz, where would we be without him! You rock Hanzy! LOL, we had a blast today! good on ya Fablo & your spooky house.:)

No motivation here yet. I'm just suckin' denatured alcohol fumes, because Dad is the Shellac Master. Window trim now looks Awesome. Later today my guest room baseboards head off to his famous basement Wood Spa, and I will be baseboardless.

I'm waiting in standby hell at the airport because I was too slow getting out of the house this morning. Partially think I self-sabotaged because I don't really want to go. Needed the relaxing weekend between conferences and didn't get it.

If I don't get on this flight I'm calling the airline to try to trade up for a first class ticket with my frequent flier miles for the next flight.

Y'all, I don't remember if Q's airline travel post mentioned this, but if you do get stuck in an airport, it's totally worth it to buy a day pass to the dominant airline's elite club. Not only will your wait be much more pleasant (she says in a comfy chair, via free wifi, while eating cheese and drinking a complimentary bloody Mary for breakfast), the agents in the club will give fixing your travel plans priority.

The house looks gorgeous! There is nothing better than coming home to a nice, tidy place. Sometimes I force myself to clean just before I go on vacation, so when I come home everything's in its place. Almost nothing better.

Adri- that sounds like excellent advice. I can't wait until I'm flying again to try out helpful fiend hints.

Fiends, I have a twitter, just so you know. I have a personal one that just links with my family/very close friends, and after a long debate I decided to make a new one that could be used more publicly.

Blah, blah, blah. In short, "El-in" on twitter is me and I'll be coming 'round to find you if you don't find me first.

Am waiting for my luggage in SFO, they had to gate check my bag bc I barely made it on to the last flight.

I meant to ask earlier, but do any Bay Area Fiends want to meet for lunch or coffee? In here til thursday morning and will be at an event at the Moscone center. Or some similar spelling. :) Email of twitter dm me or facebook me or whatever your communication pleasure is :)

Fiends! I have been internetless since Friday evening - 48 hours! I know there was a time before Fiends, and twitter, and blogs, but I'm not sure I remember that very clearly any more...

I was at my weaving gig. First ever paid weekend-long weaving teaching project. It went VERY well, and nobody even suspected that I'd never done it before. (I've been teaching weaving for 15 years, but almost always volunteer, and never for a whole weekend all by myself).

I called friends on my new phone. Friends I haven't talked to in about a month. :) ::sigh:: Still have more friends I need to call. One prefers email, but hasn't responded to the email I sent 2-3 weeks ago. I'm a bit worried as he had a brain tumor removed last summer. I know he's been online as I found his MySpace. He was my husband's college roommate. Hopefully, he's just been busy in a good way. ::soft smile::

I thought of you and the Bengals yesterday because I saw a guy trying to walk a calico cat on a leash and she was very emphatically NOT having any of that nonsense. And besides there were DOGS around. A very disapproving kitty.

good morning al! Phiala, congrats on a successful workshop! I bet your students thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The house looks lovely Lorraine, i do love sheers on windows. I overslept, agh, and now must quickly get ready to work-have a great day all!

Good morning. Who's awake? Sue's awake. And Marjorie's awake. I'm only sort of awake, but working on that.

I'd like to know what was in the smeal. Did my Moroccan chicken tagine thing the other night and threw some yam in it because I was out of couscous (which is what we normally have with it). That was sort of smealy. Especially as the sauce never comes out as thick as I'd like.

Hooray Phiala! That's exciting. Glad it went so well. :)

Thanks to Aleta I've just learned that people hiss at each other in Ghana. Sss.

I'm awake. I should be on the way to work right now, but am still lolling around in sweats. I don't feel too guilty, as tomorrow I have to be at work at 7am to leave for New Hampshire, but I suppose that I should shower and dress sometime in the near future.

Jess, I read that as "threw some yarn in", twice. Yarn is frequently found simmering on my stove, but it neither looks nor smells like food.

Worked all week. Drove to Poughkeepsie on Friday, taught weaving, drove back Sunday (5 hours one way). Worked all week, drove to Butler, taught weaving for two full days, drove home Sunday evening (3 hours one way). Work today. Drive to New Hampshire tomorrow (8 hours? but someone else will be made to drive), meet with people on Wednesday, drive back Thursday. Work half of Friday, drive to Buffalo (4 hours), judge fiber arts competition on Saturday, drive home on Sunday, go to work on Monday.

I'm missing the part where I get to sleep... who put together my schedule this month??? Oh, right - my own fault. But you see, no *possibility* of motivation...

No motivation here either. DS left to return to college, six hours away, at 8pm last night, driving first 45 minutes the opposite direction to return non-girl-friend's laptop which he spent 20+ hours removing viruses from.

At 1:30 am we got a call from him, wondering if there was something wrong with the registration for his car, since the State Trooper who stopped him for speeding thought there was.... Not so far as we know, says his Dad. (Phone is on his side of bed!)

Finally got back to school at 5 am. With some sort of ticket, maybe two?

And Jess, who CARES if yarn tagine is tasty? The important question is whether it makes the yarn a pretty color!

I am now at work. Clean, even. And in possession of a large mug of coffee. But not in possession of any teensy shred of motivation. Fortunately I have a stack of braindead projects for just such an occasion. And I can twitter and email and comment while doing them, and nobody will notice, and it won't interfere greatly with my productivity. Such as it is.

Hmm. Sloth it is, then. Can I have some of your motivation tomorrow, in exchange, for when I hacve to get up and go to court at some onbscenely early hour in the morning whcih i don't even wish to contemplate right now...?

Sorry, I need to hang on to my motivation, at least, some of it. Got a deadline today, which as a point of professional pride I cannot let whoosh past.

I don't think I've commented on the lovely pictures much. I love the jewel earth tones all through your home, Q. And the sun porch--I get why you'd want to spend a LOT of time in there, especially now it's rearranged and cleaned and sheered.

We've fresh snow on the ground, and kitty prints in it this morning. I see that a neighborhood kitty is back to its usual route; past the garage, up a certain walk here, a turning there, always indicating the same direction of travel. Cats. >^..^<

Well, I did do one thing - ass't moderating on a big message board; had to delete a post/politely let poster know why. Also took pictures of irises blooming for garden club - will donate some to plant sale.

so today i spent a day with Jon outside. We went to Olvera street, historic Los angeles downtown area, and to a public park near china town to walk in wild flowers.

a year ago today, my friend Carol lost her battle with cancer. She had been very ill for a long time. I had just moved to California and was unable to go back for her funeral. I didn't know what to do, where to go, how to deal with my grief. So Jon took me to a new La park, to walk in the sunshine amongst the wild flowers. This year we went back to that park and walked around. In May i will be walking the La Revlon 5k for women's cancer research in her honor. Today i think about how lucky i was to have carol in my life. I also take this time to reflect on all of my friends and how lucky i am to know such wonderful people.

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